When did everyone start saying 'path to citizenship'?

Both sides of the immigration debate agree on this much: “path to citizenship” is the new “amnesty.”For supporters of allowing the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants to become American citizens, “amnesty” is a word to be avoided.But as “path to citizenship” has taken its place, opponents have started to demonize that phrase as well.Sen. Rand Paul, the iconoclastic Kentucky Republican, pointedly avoided saying it even as he backed the idea in principle at a press conference Tuesday.”I didn’t use the …